Articles by Alkin Tezuysal

About Alkin Tezuysal

Alkin Tezuysal has extensive experience in open source relational databases, working in various sectors for large corporations. With over 25 years of industry experience, he has acquired skills for managing large projects from the ground up to production. For the past decade, he's been focused on e-commerce, SaaS, and MySQL technologies. Alkin has managed and architected database topologies for high-volume sites. He has several years of experience in 24X7 support and operational tasks and improving database systems for major companies. He has led global operations teams on Tier 1/2/3 support for MySQL customers. He currently holds the EVP - Global Services position at fast-growing startup ChistaDATA Inc. He's also co-author of the MySQL Cookbook 4th Edition.

Sneak Peek at ChistaDATA Cloud for ClickHouse

Sneak Peek at ChistaDATA Cloud for ClickHouse

Introduction After months of hard work designing, developing, and testing our offering as ChistaDATA Cloud has reached an early preview stage. In this post, we’d like to give you a quick sense of what’s coming […]

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Reflections from PerconaLive 2022 Austin, TX

As a long-term Perconalive veteran, the most recent Perconalive was more than an Open Source Database conference. It meant to be reunited with thought leaders of open source databases; it meant to be there, learn […]

Advantages of Column Stores for Real-time Analytics

Advantages of Column Stores for Real-time Analytics

Introduction In this blog post, I’m going to take on the subject of why we need ColumnStores for Analytics, the options we have, and how ClickHouse is compelling. Background and History Historically popular datastores have […]

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ChistaDATA Managed Services 2022

Intro In this blog post, I’d like to introduce ChistaDATA’s vision and strategy of putting our customers first around Managed Services. First of all, I’d like to thank Shiv Iyer Founder and Principal of ChistaDATA […]

* Everything changes over time – Our blogs/posts and comments changes over time, That’s how it should be! Whatever we comment from ChistaDATA Inc. Teams (including Shiv Iyer) and other stakeholders or guest bloggers posted here are never permanent, These things worked for us. But, there is no guarantee they will work for you too, When using the recommendations from ChistaDATA or MinervaDB or MinervaSQL or any other online resources / Google, You must test the advice before applying them to your production systems, and always invest for a robust Database DR solution, Thank you for understanding.

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